Genesis 2:6 meaning and explanation

But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 2:6, Berean Standard Bible

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In Genesis 2 the narrator describes the world before cultivation, when no rain had yet fallen and no human tended the soil. The single Hebrew word rendered "springs" here is 'ed, a rare term for water rising from below rather than falling from above.

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